The 2014 International Centre forWomen Playwrights 50/50 Applause Awards: Thunderous “Applause” to international theatre companies producing women playwrights! The International Centre for Women Playwrights (ICWP) is thrilled to report the extraordinary level of international support that is represented by the recipients for this year’s 50/50 Applause Awards is thrilled to report the extraordinary level of international support that is represented by the recipients for this year’s 50/50 Applause Awards, which sets out to recognize theatres that produced 50% or more
In Focus with Eden Lane – 710 ‘Grounded’
Boulder troupe’s ‘Grounded’ probes conflicts of war
George Brant’s stark drama “Grounded” follows the impressive example of generations of antiwar literature. The 90-minute show offers affecting echoes of seminal works such as Dalton Trumbo’s 1939 novel, “Johnny Got His Gun,” and Tim O’Brien’s 1990 short-story collection, “The Things They Carried.” Those parallels come in an unflinching examination of the true toll of warfare; they’re clear in the timeless undertones of violence, futility and loss that undergird the
REVIEW: Grounded
Playwright: George BrantCompany: Boulder Ensemble Theatre CompanyVenue: The AvenueTheater, 417 East 17th Avenue, Denver CO, 80203.Running Time: 1 hour 25 minutes (no intermission).Date of Performance: Sunday, September 14, 2014 (Regional Premiere) Grounded is a war story, but one unlike any you’ve seen before. It turns the brutality, the danger, and the risk of war on its head. Modern war is combat without casualties, victory with minimum risk. Laura Norman is one of
REVIEW: Grounded
Inside a trailer on an Air Force base about an hour outside of Las Vegas sits The Pilot (Laura Norman), surveying “enemy territory” on her computer screen. The pictures are provided via sensors, including a thermal camera, carried onboard a General Atomics MQ9 Reaper—otherwise known as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a remotely piloted vehicle (RMV), or, more commonly, a drone—flying half-way round the world above the deserts of
REVIEW: Grounded Is Right on Target in BETC’s Powerful Production
“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” So said J. Robert Oppenheimer of his work on the atomic bomb, quoting the Bhagavad Gita. There’s grief and guilt in the statement, as well a daunting realization of just what he’s unleashed on the world. But as you think about it, you also catch a note of megalomaniacal power. We hear the same power in the voice of The Pilot,
REVIEW: Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company’s “Grounded”
With her exceptionally adroit interpretation of a military pilot wobbling on the edge of sanity, Laura Norman is reason enough to see the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company’s daunting production of “Grounded.” Of course, she’s also the only one in this 90-minute show. But she’s so compelling that at points, you expect her husband, doctor, supervisor or seat-warmer to stride on stage. As the story begins, she is
Going for the Heart Actor and director excels at finding a play’s ‘human core’
Rebecca Remaly lets out a laugh when she remembers back to 2006, the year she and her husband, Stephen Weitz, started Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. She then compares the venture to getting a dog when you’re in college. Fun idea? Sure. A little naive? Oh, yes. “We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into,” Remaly says. “But, you know, we’ve kept the puppy.” That former puppy
Josh Hartwell Takes Off This Week With ‘Grounded’, ‘Dylan Went Electric’
Josh Hartwell, writer, actor and director, is one of the area’s treasures. A modest, diffident soul, he seems to prefer being out of the limelight, but we recently named him one of our 100 Colorado Creatives, and he’ll be getting even more attention this week, when he directs George Brant’s one-woman play Grounded, which won plaudits in both London and New York, for the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company’s first production
167: Laura Norman and Josh Hartwell
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